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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-11-18

He is at home, however, with stenog-
ranher and he keeps from one to three
stenographcrs busy all the time. He talks
of his letters and his opinions in the
choicest of AnglO-SaXOn, and puts as much
emphasis into his language as though he
were speaking TO the senate. He becomes
absorbed in every piece of dictation he does,
and while he may be debating the quieter
passages upon lounge, he Will rise to his
feet when he comes to an important SEN
tence and mouth his words like the players
in the "Midsummer Nights Dream. "
Lamar always dictates his italics, and
his private secretaries say that the best
speeches he has ever made have been made
- az audience OF one. While he was in
the senate Gu ;cd to dictate many of his
speeches beforehand, and when he got
upQn the floor speak entirely different
ones. He can, however, compose in his
mind and Col. Muldrow, assistant secye-
tary Of the interior tells a story regard
ing Lamar's noted speech upon the Texas
Pacific railroad bill of seven or eight years
ago Muldrow was at that time in the
house, and he and Lamar We're then, as
they are now, strong friends. \ day or
so before the speech was made Lamar met
MuldroW and told him that he wanted
him to take a walk with him, as he wanted
to give him his views upon this Pacific
railroad matter. He then began to sueuk
upon the subject with all the eloquence
that he afterwards showed in the senate.
The two walked on for hours, Lamar
speaking all the time, and Muldrow so
deeply interested that he did not notice
how time was passing They took, all
told, walk of from ten to fifteen miles,
and Muldrow says that Lamar delivered
the speech in the senate in identically the
! same language as that which he had used
TO him. This speech had never been writ
| ten, and Lamar's thought was so clean
cut that the same words expressed it in
both instances.
During much of his dictation Lamar
walks up and down lie wears out his
stenographers and typewriters, and his
private secretary puts on Il lugubrious face
when Lamar shows any sign Of being
what he calls sick. These spells occur
| periodically, and then visitors at the de-
| partment are told that the secretary is not
! well and Tat he cannot be seen. Callers
at the house are answered in like manner
and Lamar MAJ be away for three days at
time. lie is, however, doing his hardest
work, and his clerks have to labor night
and day to keep up with him. lie has n
little bag which he takes with him at
night when he leaves the department, and
this is filled with papers. AT his home he
has no one to interrupt him, ami he talks
away here for hours at stretch. He has
"A wonderful facility of extracting the meat
from any matter of importance, and he
can reduce an ordinary letter totwo or
three sentences.
lie has little order about his papers,
though he knows how to lind what he
wants a.l he piles them mp on his desl;
in eVcry NOV. In this respect he is Il
good de-. ! senator Beck.
Beck used 60 grow ngry mt one Of his
employee at t.2 Or! itol who WAS ctur-
nally liking up aid labelling his papers,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-11-18
SECRETARY L. @. C. LAMAR.
FRESH GOSSIP ABOUT THE HABITS
OF A NOTED MAN.

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oil bic'ati""--iiS lucas OF oi"or-A
story of senator Bcck-IIow lie Made
Ills spccchc>.
Especial Correspondence
WAsHINGToN. Nov. 10.-1hc probable
ity that Secretary Lamar will be SUI
prcme court justice makes him subject
of public interest Ills career us the head
Of the interior department has been II sur
prise to all. When he entered the cabinet
the air was full of rumors of apoplcXy and
absent mindCduess. Stories We're told of
how the noted Mississippian dreamed
away his working hours, Of how he paid
double fare in the street cars, and of how
he forgot his friends when he most wished
to remember them. 1t was said that he
had no capacity for details, and that his
training and nature was that of the scholar
rather than that Of the practical man.
The employees Of the interior department
hoped for an easy time when they found
he was to be their governor, and the
morning that he took charge of the de-
partmcnt they read more lelsurely their
morning papers and thought Il reign of
millcnnial peace had begun.
They continued in this thought just
about two days, and then awoke TO the
fact That the new man meant business
| He rc0rCanizcd the department.. He
formed Il system by which he could see
what each bureau and division was doing,
and, what is more, he demanded an ana
| lytical report as to their deeds each week.
| He did not stop with the first week nor
| the first month, and outstanding all
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-11-18
RED LENA'S FATE.
A kURlD STORY OF A FEMALE
ANARCHIST IN GERMANY.

She Was the Leader of n Band of Dcs.
per1to Men and Had Sworn to Bc the
Death of "a Police Captain who Had
Tilted Her.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-11-18

Lamar's Curious sickness and His Habits
of EictatiOu-Ilis ideas of Ordcr-A
story of senator Ecck-IIow lie Made
Ills Speeches.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-11-18

A problem for the naturalist is the case
Of animal phosphorescence. Though it
has helped The traveller to tell the time Of
night by his watch and even enable him
10 read, its light does not reveal its own
cause,-Chicago Times
The Progress., 1887-12-17

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of those chronic weaknesses and distressing
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has afforded vast experience Gin nicely
adapting and thoroughly testing remedies
for the cure of woman's peculiar maladies.
Or. Pierce's Favorite PRESCRIPTION
is the outgrowth, or result, Of this great
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testimonials. received from patierts and
from physicians who have tested it in the
more aggravated and obstinate cases which
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most wonderful remedy ever devised for
the relief and cure Of suffering women. It
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Address. WORLDS DlSPl
The Progress., 1887-12-17
Working After Marriage.

The practical Independence of the
Massachusetts woman shows itself in
a monetary self-reliance that has pleas
ant and unpleasant aspects. ! have in
mind a couple. type of some thousands
of others, who have been married six
or eight years perhaps. Before marri-
age he was foreman of the lasters in
the inevitable shoe manufactory. She
was boss of the stitching room. He
earned perhaps $18 per week. She
earned about $l2 to $l4. After mar
riage both retained their positions. 1t
is-part of the creed of shoe towns that
shoemaker's wife works In the
shop. Usually his wages compel her
to. When that is not the case,
habit, which has bred, in the shoe.
maker a way of giving his wife NO
money, compels her to all the same.
This couple keep house. They have no
children. The wife is proud of her
neat home, and rises early and goes to
bed late to keep it in order out Of
working hours. She washes summer
and winter before the sun is up. She
irons and cooks and sews by lamplight.
She does all her household duties well,
for she is genuine, old-time New Eng
land housewife. AS an equivalent for
this home labor on his wife's part the
husband pays the rent and settles the
provision bills. All other money that
he earns is his and it would give him a
shock of surprise to be called upon for,
a penny by his wife. If she wants
furniture she buys it, and has invested
a good deal, first and last, in upholstery
and dainty hangings that women love.
She buys her clothing and puts what
she saves into the saving bank in her
own name. The financial relations of
the two are as we'll defined and as
distinct from their conjugal relations as
II they were business partners. Even
in the matter of benefit associations
they stand on an exact equality He
insures for her with the Red Men; she
insures for him, and for the same sum,
in the Daughters of Pocohontas, whose
lodges are of1icered and affairs conduct
ed entirely by women. He pays his
assessments; she pays hers.
l have seen this instance repeat it.
self innumerable times. When husband
and wife are of the right sort the ar
rangement does not work badly. The
lnoney-making power of the wife in
such practical community insures her
respect and improves her position.
Both bank accounts prosper if the pair
are prudent, and the time comes when
they buy homestead together on very
even terms. When there are children
or the characters are Unbalanced it
does not go so we'll. There are wom-
en- in plenty who are dying by inches
because their husbands know that they
can support themselves and by with
holding supplies compel them to do so
in spite of growing family and work
enough at home for any woman's
strength. 1t is not SO many women
who are physically able to do two days
work in one, nor so many men who
can be trusted with the knowledge that
they can get so much from their wives
if they try. :--s sfs
The Progress., 1887-12-17
The Orator Sat DO .n.

Gen. George A. Sher idan of Louis
lana tells another story on himself.
In the old days of carpetbaggcrs he
was paying his respects to William Pitt
Kellogg before crowded audience in
New Orleans. Sheridan exhausted d hi
store OF invective in dealing with his
subject, and allowed his eloquence to
mount to this: "H every drop of water
in that mighty Mississippi, whose
source is the SHOWS Of the Far North
west, were a sparkling diamond, and
every diamond a mine, ! would not
stand in William Pitt Kellogg's shoes.
If every grain of sand along its banks
were transmitted into gold and the
whole glittering pile strewn at my
feet, mine own, would not be in
his place." The Chairman quietly
tugged his coat-tail at this point and
whispered: .'Sheridan. sit down; you
know YOU lie!'' The orator sat down.
On another occasion he was intro
duced to an audience in Central Illinois
by a bucolic Cha :rman, who said: "We
will now be addressed bya gentleman
whose name is a familiar word from
Maine to the Missouri River. He is
one Of the shiny chieftains of our grand
old party. He has spoken to countless
thousands, and his eloquencc has spur
red hosts on to victory. He will speak
to us in that same strain. 1 now in
troduce Mr.--Mr.- and then
turning to Sheridan he hoarsely whis-
pert d: I'm blanked if I haven't for
gottkn your name. ''-Boston Adver-
tiser.
The Progress., 1887-12-17
REMAINS OF A VOLCANO.
Prof Davis Interesting Discovery In tt
Connecticut Valley.

Prof Davis Interesting Discovery In the
Connecticut Valley.
The recent discovery of the re-
mains of volcano near Mount Lamen-
tation, the highest peak in the chain of
the Meriden hills. has excited the keen
est interest in scientific circles. 1t has
furnished new key to the geological
history Of the Connecticut valley. The
discovery was made by Prof. W. N.
Gavis. of Harvard University. He has
been engaged in making an exhaustive
study of the trap-rock of this State,
and he made his happy discovery of
volcanic ruins while searching for an
entirely different class of geological
phenomena
Mount Lamentation has been visited
by large numbers of people during the
past weeks. The various scientific as
sociations Of the State, and several
geologists of national repute, have
carefully examined the interesting
curiosity. No volcanic cone OF. crater
is still visible, but the phenomena Of the
place clearly indicate that in the triassic
age violent explosive eruptions of a
regular volcanic type were frequent.
Geologists have long known that the
trap-rock of the Connecticut valley
came up in a molten condition and
afterward solidified. This liquid mass
sometimes overhowed the surface like
lava streams, and was subsequently,
covered up by strata of sandstone.
Prot Davis has discovered what is
technically known as an ash-bed. 1t
is a deposit formed when molten lava
is thrown high into the air by violent
explosions, and comes down in con-
fused mass. coarse and fine. In the
triassic period when these eruptions oc-
Cured there must have been regular
cones and craters of the usual type,
but these have all been effaced. 1t is
very probable that other ash-beds may
exist in the range of Meriden hills.
The geological history of this region
has always afforded rich field for
scientific research, and the recent vol
canic discovery has given greater
scientific boom to it. Aiddtetow,s
fC0nn.) Letter.
The Progress., 1887-12-17

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is "mothers cordial" relieving nauscs,
weakness of stomach and other distressing
symptoms common to that condition. Il
its use ia kept up in the latter months Of
CESSATION, it so prepares the system for de-
livery as to greatly lessen, and many times
almost entirely do away with the sufferingB
of that trying ordeal.
ssFavofite ePrescripti on, >, when taken
in connection with the use Of DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery, and small laxa-
tive doses Of DIR. Pierce's Purgative Pellets
little Liver Pills., cures Liver, Kidney and
Bladder diseases. Their combined use also
removes blood taints, and abolisheS can
cerous and scrofulou5 humoss from the.
Tavorite Prescription y Is the only
medicine for women sold, by druggists,
under positive guarantee, from tho
manufacturers, that 1t will give eatisfac-
ton in every case, or money viii be re-
funded. This guarantee has been printed
on the botMe-Wrapper, and faithfully car.
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goo doseO Sl'OO, or sax bottles for
~ Send ten cents in stamps for Dr..
Pierce's large, illustrated Treatise 160
pages) ON Diseases OF Women.
/, 66s NIain street, BUFFALO, n. =.
The Progress., 1887-12-17
TO THE PUBLIC,

Intending purchasers of PONDS
EXTRACT cannot take too much pre-
caution to prevent substitution. Some
druggists, trading on the popularity of
the great Family Remedy, attempt to
palm off other preparations, unscru-
pulously asserting them to be "the
same as" or "equal to" PONDS Ex-.
TRACT, Indifferent to the deceit prac-
t!ced upon and disappointment there
by caused to tho purchaser, so long
as larger profits accrue to themselves.
Always insist on having PONDS Ex-
TRACT. Take no other.
SOLD IN BOTTLES ONLY NEVER
BY MEASURE. Quality uniform.
The Progress., 1887-12-17

Are you sad, despondent, gloomya SO
Are you sore distressed?
Listen to the welcome bidding
<Be at rest.'
Have you aches and pains unnumbered,
Poisoning life's Golden Cup?
Think not there's no balm in Gilead and
''Give it up.''
A Golden Remedy awaits you
Golden not alone in name
Reach, oh, suffering one, and grasp it,
Health reclaim.
There is but one Golden Remedy-Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. Itstands
alone as the great ''blood- purifier
''strength- -renewer" and .shealth- -restorer.n v
of the age The Liver, it regulates, remov-
ing all impurities. The Lungs it strength
ems, cleansing and nourishing them. The
whole system it builds up, supplying that
above all other things most needed-pure,
The Progress., 1887-12-17
DAKOTA RAILROADS.

A Country Where Public Enterprises Grow
Thick and Fast.
We were driving past Dakota set.
tiers house, when he came out and
said:
''Surveyin' mother railroadp'
s'No."
':Ain'tp / sw'ar, / told the old
woman we got to move the house
again"
"Had trouble with the railroad sur
veyorsp''
"Yes-been snakin' my house round
all summer. First some men come
along in a buggy, set up some long,
slim; barber-pole-lookin' sticks, stuck
up a three-legged dufunny, bumped
down an squinted through it, an then
says they: Old hoss, you got to move
your house bout four rods, cause
we're goin' to run the track of the Da-
kota d Gum-Weed Fork railroad right
through hcrer'
$50 you moved it?'
"Pulled her right out o the way. ..
amt the man to hinder no public inl-
provements! Then some more come
along an squinted an peeked around,
an says they: Mister Granger, we're
sorry; but we'll have to trouble you to
yank your house round bout six rods
to the SOUTH I made bee an we
yanked her.
Didn't that settle itp''
mo. In bout week caught some
more men squintin' an l called the
boys an we put jack-screws under the
house an then asked the fellers where
she should go. :Jes' haul her bout 4
quarter of mile due west, old man,
says they, an fore night me N the boys
had her hauled. I left the wheels right
under it that time an told Ike not to
unyoke the oxen"
"You didn't have to move again?"
"Yes, but did Next mornin' fore
we was up long come committee from
town an condemned the house an
ordered ME to move it inside of ten
minutes to make room for the Great
Dakota an North Pole route. We
hooked up an was snakin' it along
while my wife got breakfast, when
down come a big fat man with half a
dozen double-chains an begun givin'
me hail Columbia fer drivin' 'crost the
right o way of the Great Dakota &
Oshkosh road, an while I was poundin'
the oxen the sheriff threatened to ar
rest me for obstructin' the depot
grounds of the Great Dakota Open-Air
Blizzard Line. I jes' managed to cit
my house off onto piece O Cover ment
land an then set an watched the sur
yeyors comm on the run for the next
week. :,
"Didn't any of the roads build9"
20, no, no; they tell me downtown
that they all got their stocks sold to
Eastern spectators. so there amt no
need o buildin' Whew, but you orter
see the little pine stakes stuck in my
place; you can't walk 'crost it in the
night 'thout fallin' down faster'n you
can git up!'-F. II. Carralth, TN Chicaqo
Tribune
The Progress., 1887-12-17
Did Not Understand.

Salvationist-My friend, this may be
your last day of grace. Let ne
sinner-May be! Well, happen to
know that it is. But I've been rustling
ever since the note fell due and may
make the rifle by night.
Salvationist-It was your spiritual
welfare / had III mind. Your soul
slnner-Don't you see I'm in hur-
ryp Good day.
The Progress., 1887-12-17
Englands' Obituary Hoaors.

Englands' Obituary Honors.
The news of Lady Brassey's death
was announced in London simultaneous
ly with that of the jockey, George Ford
ham. AS a rule the papers gave Ford
ham an obituary notice of column or
more in loaded minion, while Lady
Brassey received less than half acolumn
in solid nonpareil. And when Mrs.
Mulock Craik died she got notices of
from ten to twenty-five lines only, with
her name wrongly spelled half the time.
The Progress., 1887-12-17
Must BE Nick,

Young housekeeper to Harlem butch
er)-Have you a nice hindquarter of
goat?
Butcher-Yes, ma'am; l can give you
tenpound hindquarter that will melt
in your mouth.
Young housekeeper-You are quite
sure it's nicep
Butcher (contidently)-It's tomato
can and circus-poster bred, ma am,
The Progress., 1887-12-17
Excursion to Florida,

Our first excursion to Florida will leave
party you will have the benefit of lowest
rate, best accommodations, and small ex-
penses en- route. For full information send
name and address to NJ Solomon. General
Agent Florida Southern R. R., 232 South
Clark street, Chicago. >-'N'
The Progress., 1887-12-17
II Don't Want Relief, But Cure.,

IS the exclamation of thousands suffering
from catarrh. To all such we say: Catarrh
can b. cured by DIR. Sage's Catarrh Rem
edy. 1t has bs en- done in thousands Of cases:
why not in yours? Your dangeris in delav'
Enclose q stamp to Worlds Dispensary
Medical Association, Buffalo, n. 81. for
pamphlet on this disease. -.
The Progress., 1887-12-17

In answer to casual question,
how easy and truthful to tell it's
"A cure for the worst indigestion,
10 take Pierce's Purgative Pellets.
The Progress., 1887-12-17

'rhe man that bushes is not quite
brute. !" We suppose not, but they say
there Is whole family out in Dakota, who
had never even heard of DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup. How they must blush to have it
found out - - .t-.:.ss" =
The Progress., 1887-12-17

Roman Senators, Roman Temples, Roman
Gods have all engaged the worlds atten-
ton, but the nineteenth century has pro-
vided the greatest Roman Of them all, Sal
walton Oil; it kills pain!
The Progress., 1887-12-17

A judge was recently MANNED, paradox
cal as it may appear, by the court plaster
falling on him.
The Progress., 1887-12-17
Well Supplied With Tragedy.

The students of the University of
Texas occasionally give amateur theat-
rical performances. Tom Anjerry, who
was to play the Ghost. invited Nose
Schaumburg to attend. telling him that
it was the tragedy of Hamlet.
$50 it vas /. tragedy, vas it?'' asked
the Austin merchant.
"Yes," was the reply.
we'll. den I don't go. Ven I looks
mine books over and see how much vas
owing me from dose university stu
dents, ! have more tragedy den I
wants. .''-7eras Sitli7,gs.
The Progress., 1887-12-17

IF cannot have the fat of the land, I
can take a little lean" said a philosophical
tramp, as he leaned against lamp post.
The Progress., 1887-12-17

Young Mr.. Algernon Pell-sI want to get
pair OF low shoes" New Boy-'Yes sir;
something for about seventy five cents?"
The Progress., 1887-12-17

"Dust thou art, to dust returneth,'' re-
marked the servant girl, as she picked up
the feather brush. - ., -il.Ls.l
The Progress., 1887-12-17
Tie Uses of Literature.

The Uses of Literature. ~
''You are looking so much better,
Mrs. De Ponsonby. Is your health inn
proved?''
20, yes; my new doctor has stopped
my taking chloral to make me sleep,
and instead has Mr.. Howell's novels
read to me every night, and I got off
in half the time did before"
The Progress., 1887-12-17

''Our ice is going off like hot cakes" saws
an ice dealer. Hot cakes of ice must Be
something of a novelty.
The Progress., 1887-12-17

Nopart of a man will stand as many
blows as his nose. 2.
The Progress., 1887-12-17

The reporter who goes out to interview a
man always starts with an interrogation
The Progress., 1887-12-17

The school-boy who tries in vain to con-
jugate verbs is a first-rate example of in
tense stupidity.
The Progress., 1887-12-17

"Be composed" as the type-sticker said
to the copy. H. *:.I
The Progress., 1887-12-17

Mrs. Keene-Why now, Judging from
the fact that Shiloh was fought twenty
five years ago,you must be lying where
you stand.-Harper' Bazar.
The Progress., 1887-12-17

A calf can not go into society without
revealing himself.
The Progress., 1887-12-17
Changed His Methods.

Mr.. Stretcher-It was at Shiloh,
Mrs. Keene. I had been hard hit and
was living where fell, When
Mrs. Keene-Beg pardon, Mr.
Stretcher. but how you must have
changed your methods since then!
Mr.. Stretcher-I don't understand
The Progress., 1887-12-17

You make me tired,'' as the wheel said
to the wagon-maker s.>- =
The Progress., 1887-12-17

Ito make u long story short-send
it to the editor of a newspaper. Bur-
ztpgton Free Press.
The Progress., 1887-12-17

f9thr from
S s @ ] :s @ @ I @ @ I @ @ e %
RI res % wrong @ s 5
The Progress., 1887-12-17

JOHN e. SEGAR, of M3llenbeck, Va. writes:
" My wife had been suffering for two or three
years with female weakness, and had paid
out one hundred dollars to physicians with
Prescription and it did her more good than
all che medicine given to her by the physi-
20 years they had been practicing upon her."
Mrs. GEORGE HERGER, of Westfeld, N. Y,
writes: - was great sufferer from leucor-
ually across my back. Three bottles of your
Favorite Prescription restored me to per-
feet health. treated with DIR. for
nine months. without receiving any benefit.
'ription' is the greatest earthly boon to us
en-" :
The Progress., 1887-12-17
8 PHYSICIANS
FAILED.

alone alone ~ began sga taking pr Perces
to at Il three
%sGs Sab ad Letter ter famy briefly
to any one writing me for them and enclosing
and reply my a1d The
many have rsceyed second letters
required for the Adviser an9 Sad annd 6e t6e
local treatment fully and plainly laid therein were